“Wah, wah, wah!” she said on Wednesday, adding that Republicans brought this on themselves.

“Listen, Democrats have attempted and asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no,” she told reporters. “Republicans have fought for partisan gerrymanders across the United States of America, and these are the rules that they have set.”

The Virginia vote was part of what has become a tit-for-tat redistricting war that began last year when Texas ― at Trump’s urging ― shifted its maps to send more Republicans to Congress in this year’s midterm election. Other states followed suit, but, according to most analyses, if the current maps hold, Democrats will ultimately gain a seat or two more than Republicans via redistricting.

Ocasio-Cortez said the GOP never expected this.

“They have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over, doesn’t fight, and takes everything sitting down,” she said.

But that didn’t happen.

“Now the Republican Party doesn’t like the fact that they are fighting against someone who actually will stand up for the American people,” she said.

Ocasio-Cortez also repeated her call to end all gerrymandering, but said Republicans won’t do it.

“We have the bill right here to end this all today,” she said. “But they don’t want to because they like pursuing and continuing to enact an unfair electoral landscape. And so we have an obligation to defend ourselves.”